Category: Internet

The Morning After: Apple finishes rebuilding its US maps

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In Entertainment, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Internet, Tech

[ad_1] The next step? Remapping Europe.Apple is officially done rebuilding its maps in the US Apple Maps didn’t launch with success. Comparatively skeletal, its competition did everything better. But Apple didn’t give up. It has been rebuilding the most fundamental part of the experience — the base maps themselves. For at least the past six […]

Amazon has 150 million Prime members now

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In Amazon, earnings, gear, Internet, personal computing, personalcomputing, Tech

[ad_1] “We’ve made Prime delivery faster — the number of items delivered to U.S. customers with Prime’s free one-day and same-day delivery more than quadrupled this quarter compared to last year,” said CEO Jeff Bezos in a statement. “Members now have free two-hour grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than […]

Ninja’s management agency is ‘actively seeking to diversify’ its talent pool

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In annemunition, av, business, Entertainment, esports, Gaming, Internet, interview, loaded, mixer, ninja, personal computing, personalcomputing, riot, streaming, Tech, twitch, Youtube, youtube gaming

[ad_1] Just as the debut LCS tournament was playing out in June 2011, the streaming site Justin.tv launched Twitch, a live-video platform dedicated to gaming. Today, Amazon owns Twitch and streaming is mainstream, with popular personalities regularly commanding multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals. While Twitch has dominated this space for the past half decade, competitors like Mixer […]

FCC commits $20.4 billion to help close the rural digital divide

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In business, digital divide, fcc, federal communications commission, funding, gear, high speed internet, Internet, Politics, rural, rural broadband, rural digital opportunity fund, Tech

[ad_1] In the first phase, beginning later this year, the FCC will make up to $16 billion available to areas that are “wholly unserved.” It will demand broadband speeds of at least 25 Mbps, and the funding will be made available through reverse-auction, a practice meant to drive competition. An estimated six million rural homes […]

Facebook lets Gaming streamers pick and choose their community guidelines

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In Facebook, facebook gaming, Gaming, Internet, Tech

[ad_1] Those eight rules are: Be acceptingEveryone is welcome, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or ability. Respect boundariesDon’t make advances or comments on appearance that might make someone uncomfortable. Don’t criticizeWe all have different styles — don’t judge someone’s gameplay or game choice. Don’t be rudeDon’t intentionally […]

Avast is shutting down its subsidiary that sold user data

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In all clicks feed, antivirus, avast, business, data, gear, Internet, jumpshot, selling, Tech, user data

[ad_1] Motherboard and PCMag found that Avast had been selling a whole host of sensitive user information, including Google searches, Google Maps queries and even LinkedIn and YouTube activity data to some of the world’s largest companies. The company obtained this data through its anti-virus software, which it then packaged and sold through Jumpshot. And […]

Your emoji selection will become more gender-inclusive this year

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In Emoji, gear, Internet, Mobile, Tech

[ad_1] The transgender flag and symbol are also coming to devices as part of the new batch. Google and Microsoft backed the proposal to add the trans flag and symbol last year, and in it the tech giants wrote: “[We] believe that adding an emoji illustrative to our life experiences isn’t just about creating technology […]

Facebook settles lawsuit over its use facial recognition for $550 million

Post author By Randall
Post date January 30, 2020
Categories In business, earnings, Facebook, facial recognition, gear, Internet, lawsuit, q42019, Security, settlement, Tech

[ad_1] After years of wrangling in courts, Facebook has settled a lawsuit over its use of facial recognition. Last year it agreed to stop turning on the tech to scan photos by default, which built a template of your facial data, and automatically suggested tags in photos based on it. During an earnings call on […]

Netflix is turning manga and anime ‘One Piece’ into a live-action series

Post author By Randall
Post date January 29, 2020
Categories In Entertainment, Internet, live action, Netflix, one piece, Tech

[ad_1] Eiichiro Oda’s comment (Original Creator & Executive Producer): “I know I announced the production of this back in 2017, but these things take time! Preparations have been slowly progressing behind the scenes, and it seems that I can finally make the big announcement: — NX (@NXOnNetflix) January 29, 2020 Netflix, the world’s leading streaming […]

Facebook may be cutting its budget for original Watch content

Post author By Randall
Post date January 29, 2020
Categories In av, budget, business, Entertainment, Facebook, facebook watch, highlights, Internet, original content, platform, scripted, Sports, streaming, talk shows, Tech

[ad_1] While Facebook has yet to confirm The Information‘s claims, just last week, the social network reached a deal with the PGA Tour to bring daily recaps and highlight videos, rather than live coverage, to Facebook Watch. It also recently canceled two of its original shows, Limetown with Jessica Biel and Sorry for Your Loss […]